Turnitin: Set up a Turnitin Assignment

To set up a Turnitin submission point in Blackboard Learn Ultra, you will need to locate Turnitin in the Content Market as it is a third party tool.

• Find Turnitin tool in your Ultra course
• Setup the Turnitin Assignment in the LTI tool (video)
• Create assignment
• Optional Settings (video)
• Settings and Rubrics
• Similarity report settings
• Edit submission point
• Moving a Turnitin submission point in Ultra

Find Turnitin in Ultra

The Turnitin LTI tool is located in the Content Market, which is one of the options on the add content menu in Blackboard Learn Ultra. Locating the LTI tool via the add content menu in Course Content allows you to choose where the submission point will appear.

Open the Content Market

Go to the area in your Ultra course where you wish to add the submission point. Hover over the divider link at the exact point where you wish the submission point to appear. When the line turns purple and the + icon appears, click on it to reveal the add content menu.

From the add content menu select Content Market.

Select Turnitin

The Content Market has many third party tools available to use in your course. Turnitin is represented as an icon named Turnitin LTI Assignment under the heading “Institution Tools”. Click on it to open Turnitin.

Once you have clicked on the Turnitin LTI Assignment link Turnitin will open a new create assignment page.

Set-up a Turnitin Assignment (video)

Create a Turnitin assignment

When the Turnitin LTI opens you will be able to follow the assignment set up steps.

In the set up screen add your Assignment Title and Instructions. Add your Points possible, now under Max Grade.

As before the start date will be when you create the assignment, and you can add the Due date using the calendar. Click on the Clock icon to change to the due time.

Repeat for the Post Date, now renamed Feedback Release Date.

Before opening in the optional Settings, tick the Enable PeerMark box if you will be using the PeerMark assignment feature.

Optional Settings (video)

Submission Settings and Rubric

1. Submit paper to
   Select whether the assignments will be sent to Turnitin’s data archive. under Submit Papers to. This is usually set to Standard paper repository, but you can choose ‘Do not store the submitted paper’ for draft submission areas.
2. Allow any file type
   Selecting Allow submission of any file type will allow any type of file to be uploaded to Turnitin, but won’t produce a similarity report for non-office type files, and larger or non standard PowerPoint files.
3. Allow late submissions
   • Schools with a single submission point = Yes
   • Schools with separate on-time and post-deadline submission points
     • on-time assignment = No
     • post-deadline assignment = Yes
4. Allow anonymous marking
   Select whether you will be using anonymous marking.
5. Attach a rubric
   Attach a rubric to mark with, and choose from your Rubric list or Launch the rubric manager to create a new one.

Post-deadline submission points

The due date and start date for the post-deadline submission point would normally both be the same as the official deadline for this assignment. However, Turnitin will not now allow you to set the due date as the same as the start date. Therefore, please set the post-deadline due date as 1 minute later than the official deadline.

⚠ WARNING! Turnitin may appear to allow you to save the same date and time for Start and Due dates, but will save the Due date as 24 hours after the Start date. The original due date will show in Blackboard but will be altered in Turnitin.

Similarity Settings

These settings help you set the most useful similarity report parameters for the assignment.

1. Compare against
   leave all of these selected.
2. Generate Similarity Reports for student submission
   Choose when similarity reports are generated and whether students can resubmit until the deadline.
3. Allow students to view Similarity Reports
   Select whether students will see a Similarity Report for this assignment.
4. Exclude bibliographic materials
   Select the checkbox to exclude text appearing in the bibliography, works cited, or references sections of student papers from being checked for matches when generating Originality Reports. You can overwrite this setting in individual Similarity Reports.
5. Exclude quoted materials
   Select the checkbox to exclude quotations from being checked for matches when generating Similarity Reports. You can overwrite this setting in individual Similarity Reports.
6. Exclude small sources
   Select the checkbox to exclude matches that are not of sufficient length (determined by you) from being considered when generating Similarity Reports. A box will appear, where you can exclude matches by word count or by percentage
7. Exclude assignment template
   You can now also exclude any proformas or templates from the similarity to see the true match to original work. You can upload the blank document all student use for the assignment here.

After completing all the settings, and choosing whether to save these for next time, click Submit.

The Assignment will appear in the Course Content.

Edit Turnitin Assignments

Editing the submission point happens in three different places, please see our guide Edit Turnitin Assignments for instructions.

Release conditions are set up automatically to accommodate the Start Date. This is due to the way Turnitin and Blackboard integrate.

Moving a Tii Submission point

When the submission point has been created it will appear at the point in the Course Content where you called up the add content menu. You will be able to move it if you need to.

To move the item hover over the item until it darkens and a dotted icon appears on the left-hand side. At that point, click to pickup the item and release when you are happy with its location.

 

---

Guide last updated on June 25, 2024